I feel like all the horror, pain and effort that I have been through lately has been worth it all. I have really pushed as hard as I could to get through this surgical recovery pain.
My doc/surgeon took me through some "strength tests," today. He set me up at half my body weight on one leg, lifting a set of weights against a computer monitor to log every thing, not really expecting me to do more than one rep. I slammed it up top with an amazing noise and then another - he stopped me.
With raised eyebrows, he added sixty more pounds - first was one hundred twenty, now, one hundred eighty pounds on my dodgy leg that had had a complete hip replacement surgery one year ago. (Complete Hip Replacement is different from some. It means having your femur sawn off, your marrow drawn out to some degree then a prosthesis embedded and an excavation into the pelvis to set a plate, screwed in to accept what was embedded into your femur - trust me one must be quite desperate to do this) I slammed it up like it was nothing. Doc became quite stern and asked if I could do more. I said that I think so.
After doing this for half an hour, I was finally only able to lift three hundred forty pounds ONE TIME with my weak leg, after climbing up, progressively, from one hundred twenty pounds.
At three hundred forty pounds, I had to concede that I could not do any more. Docs eyes had gone from "why the fuck are you trying to break my computer machine" to something like, "Wow!" All he said was to please wait a few minutes while he gets his assistant in here to record these results.
About twenty minutes later, my doctor came back into my room with my new X=Rays and said how everything is going fine. He was still very proud of the fact that I had become so strong in this one year.